The New Westminster News
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alternative: [New Westminster Daily News]
issued: 2015-12-18
issued: 1913-05-14
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note: I 1 \ A The New Westminster Nows Is the only miiriiing newspaper pub lished In the City of New Westminster and the rich und fertile Fraser Valley. UiM% ''..'n, Tir-. WoaUier. , ,JM wHtralDptef'>*iid Lower Wafnland: Light to"mdd|f*te winds; 3| cool and cloudy; prob-aWe -Showers; net) inacln change, m t. mpeiAture. --^ST :/c G' ^ igrnni^J^r VOLUME B, NUMBER NEWWESTMIN8TER, B.C., WEDNE1DAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1913 -C�����~^[g|CE F|VE CENT8 G(MRNMENT m SttMS fivORABlf Provincial Premier Is Impressed With Annacis Island Bridge Plan. Promises Legislation for Harbor sessment In Conference Here Yesterday. Aa UV MAIN UNDER NORTH ARM MMS A conference fraught with momentous consequences to the city of New Westminster, waB held yesterday uf- ternoon In the mayor's office. Pre- ' mier Sir t'.lchard Mcllrlde, with ofi'l- Clals representing the C. N. II. and B. C. K. 11. companies were over an hour in clcse consultation with the mayor and tbe city council, Captain A. 0. Powell, harbor engineer, and President J A. Lee of the board of trade, discussing the plans of the harbor improvements and the proposed new bridge across the Fraser river by J way of Annacis Island. Captain Powell submitted a tabulated statement Bhowlng the present contested state of railroad traffic on the existing bridge. The statistics for the week commencing April 16 and ending April l!5, exclusive of Sunday, the 20th, were aa follows: From -8 am. to G p.m.���Q. N. H. trains, 70; B. C. E. R. trahiH, 68; speeders. IS; total, 151. Daily average for week days. 2X>; ���estimate for C. N. U��� 17; estimate for Northern Pacific, K; total, 60. With river traffic allowing for only 13 openings per day, 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 10 minutes each. 2 hours; time- available for trains, etc, 10 hours; 50 trains, etc., will mean one every 12 minutes. It is impossible to distribute trains evenly tor ."- 12 hour period, and fur- thermore the number of trains is liable to increase with the d. velopment of the province Definite Prepositio…
note: Titled The Daily News from 1906-03-06 to 1912-04-24; Westminster Daily News from 1912-04-25 to 1912-12-04; and The New Westminster News from 1912-12-05 to 1914-09-04. Published by The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited from 1903-03-06 to 1912-04-24; and The National Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd. from 1912-04-25 to 1914-09-04.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0315919
language: English
lat: 49.206667
long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster, B.C. : The National Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text